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Alex Williams

@acwio

Principal Applied Sciences Manager @Microsoft | Opinions are my own.

Katılım Nisan 2015
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Gagan Bansal
Gagan Bansal@bansalg_·
📢 AI Agent Internships at Microsoft Research AI Frontiers If you want to work with me/our team apply below! PhD student in CS/STEM + strong programming skills are a must. apply.careers.microsoft.com/careers/job/19…
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Mustafa Suleyman
Mustafa Suleyman@mustafasuleyman·
What kind of AI does the world really want? At @MicrosoftAI, we’re working towards Humanist Superintelligence (HSI): incredibly advanced AI capabilities that always work for, in service of, people and humanity. And to do this we have formed the MAI Superintelligence Team.
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Zachary Horvitz
Zachary Horvitz@zachary_horvitz·
✨Honored to receive a @Google PhD Fellowship in NLP! Very grateful for my advisors and incredible collaborators, like the brilliant @_rk_singhal ❤️ Stay tuned for some cool text diffusion results! 👀
Google.org@Googleorg

🎉 We're excited to announce the 2025 Google PhD Fellows! @GoogleOrg is providing over $10 million to support 255 PhD students across 35 countries, fostering the next generation of research talent to strengthen the global scientific landscape. Read more: goo.gle/43wJWw8

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Alex Williams@acwio·
@jdzamfi @bryanhaoenwang It's easy for me to imagine this paper being recognized years from now as being a flagship example of the movement toward "interfaces for navigating the unknown". Excellent work!
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J.D. Zamfirescu
J.D. Zamfirescu@jdzamfi·
@bryanhaoenwang Not *quite* what you're looking for (following!) but you might find this upcoming paper at CHI '25 interesting. (Haven't even tweet streamed it yet!) zamfi.net/pdf/CHI25_Beyo… Upshot: if you *do* actually care about what program you end up with, the challenges shift quite a bit!
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Bryan Wang
Bryan Wang@bryanhaoenwang·
I'd be excited to read any HCI papers studying the phenomenon of vibe coding (especially involving speech input and agents)—it's such a paradigm shift in programming.
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Amy Zhang
Amy Zhang@amyxzh·
I am deeply honored to be named a Sloan Fellow this year. Thank you to my students, collaborators, and colleagues for making all of our work in @SocFuturesLab possible. And thank you to the Sloan Foundation for your support of science and early career scientists in these times.
Sloan Foundation@SloanFoundation

🎉Congrats to the 126 early-career scientists who have been awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship this year! These exceptional scholars are drawn from 51 institutions across the US and Canada, and represent the next generation of groundbreaking researchers. sloan.org/fellowships/20…

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Zheng Zhang
Zheng Zhang@roryzzhang·
Excited to share that I’m joining Adobe as an Applied Scientist on the GenAI team led by @yunyao_li! Looking forward to learning, collaborating, and enhancing the user experience of our AI assistant of @AdobeExpCloud
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Alex Williams
Alex Williams@acwio·
If you're thinking about doing a PhD in AI/HCI, look no further. 👀
Dakuo Wang@dakuowang

📢Hiring fully-funded PhD/Postdoc/MS interested in the broad human+AI research topic. - How do humans work with humans (#CSCW)? - How to design AI to support humans work with humans (#HumanCenteredAI)? - How does AI work with humans? (#HumanAICollaboraiton) I'm traveling at #cscw2024 from Nov 11 to 13, and at #EMNLP2024 from 13 to 16. Talk to me in person! or, you can also contact me via this form docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

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Alex Williams@acwio·
@DavLedo @IanArawjo Literally my go-to reference for justifying all-things toolkit, and to some degree all-things systems. It's a staple!
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David Ledo
David Ledo@DavLedo·
@IanArawjo Not to self plug, legitimately trying to continue the conversation. My colleagues and I in 2018 did a survey on toolkit evaluation that I think extends to many authoring contexts. James Fogarty also has a very inspiring paper on Code and Contribution dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/31…
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Ian Arawjo
Ian Arawjo@IanArawjo·
A reviewer in the *systems* subcomittee of CHI states in their review of our system paper that it is not "a fit for CHI" because CHI requires user evaluations. Folks, is this not absurd?
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Alex Albert
Alex Albert@alexalbert__·
I've seen enough
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Ian Arawjo@IanArawjo·
Does anyone else in HCI have experience reporting results from linear mixed models? I feel like the standards just aren’t there in our field for how to report LMMs and post-hoc analyses.
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Ian Arawjo
Ian Arawjo@IanArawjo·
So apparently the debates on Likert scales have ended in people recommending parametric tests that treat the Likert data as interval? Is there something I'm missing here? Bc I feel like I just wasted an hour re-discovering the Likert scale debate only to end up where I started.
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Xiao Ma
Xiao Ma@infoxiao·
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Arena.ai@arena

Exciting News from Chatbot Arena! @GoogleDeepMind's new Gemini 1.5 Pro (Experimental 0801) has been tested in Arena for the past week, gathering over 12K community votes. For the first time, Google Gemini has claimed the #1 spot, surpassing GPT-4o/Claude-3.5 with an impressive score of 1300 (!), and also achieving #1 on our Vision Leaderboard. Gemini 1.5 Pro (0801) excels in multi-lingual tasks and delivers robust performance in technical areas like Math, Hard Prompts, and Coding. Huge congrats to @GoogleDeepMind on this remarkable milestone! Gemini (0801) Category Rankings: - Overall: #1 - Math: #1-3 - Instruction-Following: #1-2 - Coding: #3-5 - Hard Prompts (English): #2-5 Come try the model and let us know your feedback! More analysis below👇

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Julia Kiseleva
Julia Kiseleva@julia_kiseleva·
The wind of change is blowing! Today is my last day at @MSFTResearch. I'm deeply grateful for the opportunities, challenges, and joyous discoveries I've shared with my talented colleagues! Excited for the next chapter ahead!
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Sharon Ferguson
Sharon Ferguson@_sharonferguson·
🎉 Exciting News! 🎉 I’m thrilled to announce that I will join @UWaterloo as an Assistant Professor in Management Science and Engineering starting January 2025! My lab will focus on studying the Future of Work, collaborative platforms, and supporting teamwork.
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Alex Williams
Alex Williams@acwio·
@FarnazJ_ If I remember correctly, we asked them to describe how they spent the downtime. We felt like asking them for something more validating (eg. a photograph of what they did). Asking them to video themselves during the break isn't exactly immune to issues either!
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Farnaz Jahanbakhsh (@farnaz@hci.social)
Farnaz Jahanbakhsh (@[email protected])@FarnazJ_·
@acwio Thanks! We're worried introducing a break where they don't do anything will induce them to take on another task in parallel, and then the rest of our task will have their divided attention, which puts their pre and post break ratings on unequal footing. Did you encounter this?
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Farnaz Jahanbakhsh (@farnaz@hci.social)
Farnaz Jahanbakhsh (@[email protected])@FarnazJ_·
We're asking crowd workers to do a longish task where they differentiate between items (say articles). We're worried that fatigue might inhibit differentiation. We want to introduce a break where they do sth lightweight and fun. Has anyone tried this? What activities did you use?
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Minsuk Chang
Minsuk Chang@minsuk_chang·
Did we stop working on HCI theory as a community? (honest question...) I'm looking for examples like information foraging and such. What did we develop in the 2000s, 2010s, 2020s?
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